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The US Rivers Where Snapping Turtles Grow Largest

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By Adel Bou Alia
| WorldAtlas
America's biggest snapping turtles are not all the same animal. Common snapping turtles, Chelydra serpentina, range across much of the country, while alligator snapping turtles in the genus Macrochelys live mainly in southern river systems and can grow far heavier. River records make that difference easy to see. A Kansas common snapper reached 45 pounds, but a wild alligator snapper in East Texas tipped a scale at more than 200. Everything really is bigger in Texas.
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What Happens If Old Faithful Stops Erupting

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By Adel Bou Alia
| WorldAtlas
Roughly every 90 minutes, Old Faithful hurls about 7,000 gallons of boiling water more than 100 feet into the Wyoming sky. Thousands of eruptions a year keep the boardwalk crowds coming back. The pale mound under the vent holds a stranger record. Scientists have pulled mineralized tree stumps out of it dating to the 1200s. Lodgepole pines once grew on ground that now gets drenched in scalding water every hour and a half. Turns out, the most dependable geyser on Earth has gone quiet before.
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The National Forests With The Most Rattlesnakes

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By Adel Bou Alia
| WorldAtlas
Rattlesnake country gets especially interesting in the American Southwest, where one national forest can climb from hot desert to cool mountain woodland in a single afternoon. Arizona leads the nation with 13 rattlesnake species, according to the Arizona Game and Fish Department, and several of its national forests overlap the ranges of multiple species.
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